Two independent, opposition newspapers, Alwan and Rai al-Shaab, have been closed by Sudan's security forces without explanation. Alwan, an Arabic-language daily, was closed by order of the Khartoum authorities after it published an interview with an...
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Trinity Mirror is closing five offices in Scotland a month after announcing plans to merge the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail with sister company Scottish and Universal Newspapers. The closures will result in the loss of 35 non-editorial jo...
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The New York Daily News editor began his career at a news agency in Southport, before heading to Fleet Street, aged 22Colin Myler began his career at a news agency in Southport. He began working in Fleet Street aged 22, working as a reporter at the...
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Up to 100 newspaper titles in Italy are facing closure because of the government's subsidy cuts - down from €170m a year to €53m (£142/£44m). The include Liberazione, a communist daily; L'Unita, the paper founded by Antonio Gramsci; Il...
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Economics of the digital world are only too evident to the press as handheld devices strike a death knell for old business modelsA million iPads and Kindles may have been unwrapped on Sunday – according to tentative analyst estimates – an influx...
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Further to my posting on Friday, Weekly newspaper closures in 2011, which revealed that the overwhelming majority of axed titles were frees...The latest Advertising Association (AA) adspend figures - for the third quarter of 2011 - illustrate the...
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No 10 admits PM met executives of News Corp and subsidiaries more than all other media groups combined during periodRupert Murdoch attended No 10 Downing Street for a previously undisclosed second meeting with David Cameron in July 2010 in the...
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Richard Desmond's red-top, a beneficiary of NoW's closure, is up 100.7% year on year but down 3.29% month on monthRichard Desmond has a welcome 60th birthday present  the Daily Star Sunday has doubled its circulation compared with November...
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